[GRLUG] legal drm-free mp3 downloads on ubuntu

Bill Littlejohn billl at mtd-inc.com
Tue Jan 26 11:28:55 EST 2010


On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-25 at 20:42 -0500, Topher wrote:
>> Top posting because I'm not really responding to any specific thing below.
>> I looked into the Amazon app, and even downloaded it, but I just couldn't
>> bring myself to use root to install a closed source Amazon app on my linux
>> box.  Yeah, it's probably fine, but Amazon has shown no qualms about being
>> evil in the past, and I didn't think it was worth it.
>
> Ignore the stupid download app.  I get all my MP3s from Amazon, I've
> never installed their stupid download-manager;  I just download the MP3
> like downloading any other file.  There is no requirement to use their
> silly app.  There is no DRM (other than it being a proprietary format).
>
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Thanks Everyone!
-Bill


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